David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org

It seems to me that, strictly speaking, you can't write your autobiography because you don't know how it ends until you're at the end, at which point you're unlikely to feel like writing or to be able to if the end is sudden and unexpected. Even if you could write the end, it would be something like this: And now, my friends, as I reach my end, I want to sum up everything I've learned in my long and eventful life in the form of this vitally important messa

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Hmm. I could swear I've seen you somewhere before.

These replies are quite telling.

(I have no idea what I mean by that.)

"Time will tell" is an odd expression. Of course time will tell. It always does.

That should work, shouldn't it?

Tonight, after I put my hearing aids to bed in their little padded container, Leonore heard them making noises (which I couldn't hear because, of course, I wasn't wearing my hearing aids). They were turned off and therefore, in theory, shouldn't have been able to do anything. And yet they were doing something. I wonder if they were uploading the day's data to the FBI or someplace even scarier. Probably not.

I thought Boebert was toast, but it seems she's only somewhat singed.

The ancient Greeks would say that Trump is just about to be punished for hubris.

It was so long ago that it no longer feels quite real to me.

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Before retiring, I was an aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander), software developer, and tech writer. But that was to pay the bills. I think of myself as a writer -- mostly sf, some horror, some mystery, some (yet unpublished) fantasy. Lots of details at www.dvorkin.com

My wife and I also help writers self-publish. You can find out more at www.dldbooks.com

In theory, I should be writing much more now that I'm retired. In practice, that's not happening. I blame the Internet.

Perhaps some day, someone will write the definitive account of Boebert's career: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF LAUREN BOEBERT: A SHORT BUT NOISY BOOK. It will sell very few copies.

Duh!

I'm an atheist and I'm on Mastodon, but I don't know what the bird site is.

I told myself I would spend the evening being productive and would only check election results occasionally. Ha, ha, ha.

I just saw a rumor (no idea how reliable) that Elon Musk wants to charge everyone to use Twitter, putting the entire site behind a paywall. Can he really be that stupid?